The walls confess of hearing confessions
Of people alone in rooms
Of pains shared in the stillness
When nobody else was listening
The walls sing of hidden joys
Of the smiles one hides
Of hearts being punctured
Egos being bruised
Of brothers and sisters fighting
Not talking, pretending not to care
Of love unspoken
Because it's uncool to be sweet to your sibling

The walls hush of family secrets

Of pregnant announcements

And embarrassing separations

Of family dysfunctions we thought

Nobody else had

Of dirty linen kept where they should be

Hidden, forgotten

The walls speak of heart-scarring hurts

And gut-wrenching breakthroughs

Graduations, weddings, birthdays

The walls saw the growing up

Of awful kids transforming into awesome adults

The walls remember
Parties, preparing for parties
Dreaming of parties
Parties that went too far
Of drunken people sprawled on the floor
Of cleaning up after the nights of reverie
The walls will miss
The people
People visiting
People overstaying
But more than anyone,
The people who lived, slept, breathed, dreamed, grew, gave, loved in it

And then the walls grow silent

Remembering a sister

For whom this house is just not big enough

To hold the love

To bear the pain of losing her

And maybe that’s why we have to move

Maybe this is where they outlive their use

This is when they say goodbye

One last hug, one last look

To let us move on for fresher air, for new stories

For more graduations, weddings, birthdays

For more love, love, love, and love

They're just walls
Concrete, immobile walls
But they speak
They witness
They remember
They cry
They confess
They love
They hurt
They die
Those walls did talk